A couple of months after Kanye “Ye” West claimed that Kim Kardashian had an affair with Chris Paul, Shaquille O’Neal brought the subject back to the forefront while discussing the Phoenix Suns. O’Neal was addressing apparent team turmoil for Paul and the Suns. “If they can learn how to separate this and that, doesn’t matter what happens on the court, off the court,” the NBA analyst said on “The Big Podcast with Shaq” in February. “Doesn’t matter if your wives are fighting or you know, if somebody says you messing with Kim Kardashian and you know, your wife mad at you,” O’Neal said while adding that Paul and his teammates needed to persevere past any off-court drama.
O’Neal had become attached to the West tweeting fiasco in November 2022 when the “Flashing Lights” rapper took issue with the former Los Angeles Lakers big man for criticizing Kyrie Irving’s antisemitic tweets. West tweeted about O’Neal’s relationship with billionaire Jamie Salter which caused the NBA Hall of Famer to fire back. “Worry about your business, and to quote the once great Kanye [W]est ‘I got more money than you, so why would I listen to you,'” O’Neal tweeted in November 2022.
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Later that month, O’Neal addressed his beef with the much-maligned rapper. “He threw it all away being arrogant and cocky, so now he wants to throw everybody else’s business dealings under the bus?” he said to People in November 2022. That was not the only time O’Neal had disparaging words for West.
